Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 93
“Captain, let go!” he cried, writhing.
What happens: let, go, cry · To what, where: writhing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Captain | punct |
| 2 | Captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Captain | parataxis |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Captain | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 writhing | punct |
| 11 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | writhing | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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